Let's be clear. It's not like it's easy to be an atheist anywhere in the U.S. Atheists are the most distrusted and disliked of all minority groups -- more than Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, immigrants, and gays and lesbians -- and polls show that Americans are less likely to vote for an ath...

I was so amazed at what this community did that I was literally choked up.
I saw this on reddit, passed it around to those I knew, and donated when Hemant added the story to his site, as did so many others.
This is the first time that so many of my atheists friends, who like myself, are wasting away all alone in little suburbs and hamlets, really understood the bloc of solidarity that we do have.
I'm proud of that young man for standing in the face of that storm, and proud of everyone who spread the word and helped in whatever way they could.

This piece was originally published on AlterNet. When a high school atheist tried to stop prayer at his graduation, he was ostracized, threatened, and kicked out of his house. But the atheist community stepped in. Whatever you think about atheists -- good, bad, mixed, indifferent -- this story sh...